Navigate your way around the prehistoric world with the
ancient-wisdom database of ancient and
sacred sites. Search for sites
either by country or by their type of construction
(pyramids, stone-circles etc). The database is
always being added to, with those sites related to
the content of the website being given priority. Please
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The
long debated field of Archaeoastronomy has finally
matured following years of persistence on behalf of
researchers around the world.
The deliberate
placement and orientation of the megaliths, along with several
specific design and construction features clearly demonstrates the intimate
relationship between the builders, their buildings, the living-landscape and
the universe they found themselves in.

A look at some of the more
challenging anomalous archaeological discoveries
of recent times. These controversial discoveries
have long unsettled the scientific community,
who tend to label them either as 'Fake'
or 'Anomalous'. It is exactly because the term
'prehistory' refers to the time before
written history, that we have a difficulty in understanding the context of many
discoveries but until we face them head on, they
will remain classified as O.O.P.Arts.

This section explores the
relationship between our
ancestors and the living earth-mother.

The concept of a 'living
earth' was revised in the 1970's by James Lovelock,
who recently announced his prediction of a global
human catastrophe of
unprecedented proportions this century as a
result of the laziness of our behaviour... So much to re-learn and so little time to learn it.!

Petrie's work at Giza demonstrated that our perception of
prehistoric abilities falls well below the actual
achievements of our ancestors. This section is in recognition of
the unsung and unshaven prehistoric genius that led us step by
step to the state of ignorance we currently find ourselves.

The origins of consciousness
as recorded by our Palaeolithic ancestors. The
'Cave of Forgotten
Dreams' at
Chauvet, France has changed the way we look at our
Palaeolithic ancestors. It is just one of hundreds
of European caves that are revealing a new dimension
to our relationship with the world, offering a
tantalising glimpse at a sophisticated set of
behaviour, skills and imaginative processes
operating in Palaeolithic times.

Just as we were adjusting to the idea of
Leylines and the
Megalithic yard,
along comes the suggestion that the placement of
prominent prehistoric sites at significant latitudes
and longitudes was due to the application of a
geodetic system of mathematical knowledge. The 'linear-mentality'
of our ancestors seems to have had no frontiers, but
what if any, was the origin and purpose of
networking sacred sites.

The
synchronicity of the universe is determined by
certain mathematical constants which express
themselves in the form of 'patterns' and 'cycles' in
nature. Life itself
is also governed by such processes, as Da Vinci's
Vitruvian man (left) so aptly demonstrates. What is
sacred geomoetry and how
can we benefit from the incorporation of these
constants into design, construction,
art and music.

Apart from the numerous
examples of surgery in prehistory (with trepanations
being found from 50,000 BP), there is much evidence
to suggest that healing has been a revered and
practiced art for many thousands of years. More
importantly, perhaps it is time to re-evaluate what
is alternative and what isn't.

While archaeology
provides us with a physical record of the past, the
invention of writing provides us with a unique
resource through which we are able to connect to the
imagination and wisdom of our ancestors. However,
the gradual conversion to writing from the oral
tradition has ironically resulted in the loss of
knowledge as the majority of ancient texts have been
systematically destroyed through human ignorance and
stupidity.

For a long time it was
believed that the Zodiac signs originated in
Babylon. This assertion is now being challenged by
5,000 - 7,000 year old discoveries in Anatolia,
which suggest the heavens were divided at least a
thousand years before the Sumerians, Egyptians or
Indus Valley cultures existed.

Animals are well known for their extraordinary
senses through their migratory skills, earthquake
and weather prediction, but what of the humans who
evolved alongside them.? Our physiology suggests
that we were once similarly equipped.

Research is showing that sound can be used in a
variety of ways to assist patients recovery, from
depression to healing
broken bones.
Recent studies at Stonehenge suggest that the art
may have been practiced for much longer than we
thought.

Reports of ancient canal systems in the Americas has
prompted debate on their origin. From Peru to
Louisiana to Florida, evidence of canal systems
dated at 7,000 BP, and including submerged Harbours
and Quays are revealing the existence a new form of
engineering in the ancient Americas.

Well, here we are in 2012, the so-called 'End-time',
of Mayan prophecy. As the inevitable hype and
speculation increases, perhaps we should be asking
ourselves what exactly it is that we are afraid of.

The numerous discoveries of bone flutes suggests an
intimate relationship with music from our earliest
origins. They are found around the prehistoric world,
often with the same diatomic scale we use today.

Recent
discoveries have revealed the thread of an ancient set
of ideas that symbolically unites pyramids with the
underworld, the deluge, the primal-mound, and our
developing ideas of the afterlife and cosmology.

the
discovery of several bodies what appear to be 'therapeutic' marks on
them, and relating to illnesses they carried while they were alive,
has opened the debate as to the origin of both
acupuncture and Tattooing.

Musical ratios have been
observed in the movements of the planets, they have been
recognised in important texts such as the Vedas or the
Book of the Dead, and in constructions and myths around
the ancient world.

With over 400 ancient
lenses discovered so far, it is perhaps no coincidence
that Babylonian texts refer specifically and accurately
to celestial objects and details that are not available
with the naked eye.

The symbol for the
Labyrinth has been associated with sacred places for
thousands of years. More recently, it has been used as a
tool for pilgrimage, representing the metaphorical
journey we take through life.

Are we
really at the 'Mayan end-time', or does 2012 just mark
the end of one cycle and the beginning of another? A
look at the cyclic nature of catastrophe, the absences
in the archaeological record and what we can earn from
them.